Pearls - Adobe Illustrator Tutorial

Jacquelin Vanderwood April 1, 2003 1 Let's begin by selecting the Ellipse tool. 2 Go ahead and create a complete circle by pressing the Shift key and dragging. Be sure and use a light gray fill color and no stroke. 3 With the circle still selected, click on the Mesh tool. 4 Set up the mesh as you see below. 5 Select a darker gray. 6 Drop that gray with the Mesh tool still selected onto the 3rd corner point located in the center. Deselect that point. 7 Now select a light blue. 8 Drop the light blue at the center 2nd point. Deselect. 9 Select white and drop it on the point next to the light blue point we just did. Deselect. 10 Select a brown. 11 Drop onto the two bottom points that are located just above and inside the bottom of the circle 12 Select an off white. Drop it onto the 3rd center point located on the right side. 13 With the Mesh tool selected go ahead and adjust the points. 14 Select a darker brown and drop it onto the center absolute bottom point on the right. 15 Open your Symbols palette. Drop the pearl we made onto it by dragging. 16 Drag that pearl back onto the page. Press the Shift key and reduce it. Hold the Alt key down and begin duplicating the pearl. 17 Create a new Art Brush. Duplicate the oval to have a spare. Select one of the ovals, find the art brush we just created and apply it to the oval. This will make the clasp. You can reduce as necessary. 18 Draw a simple hook and paste behind and you are done.   Copyright 2003, Jacquelin Vanderwood, All Rights Reserved